Amador County Unified reviews 2024 California Dashboard: ELA and math below standard; district outlines interventions

Amador County Unified School District staff presented the 2024 California School Dashboard results at the board meeting, highlighting performance gaps in English language arts and mathematics and outlining a set of interventions to address them.

District presenter (Miss Horn) opened by asking the board to view the data as a tool, saying, “data can be a hammer or a compass,” and then reviewed the district’s CAASPP, CAST and ELPI indicators released by the California Department of Education.

Key metrics presented by staff included: - English language arts: district distance from standard 38 points below; a year‑over‑year decrease of about 9.8 points (California average 13.2 below standard). Staff noted the ELA indicator would have been yellow if the district had been 12.8 points closer to standard. - Math: district 76.6 points below standard, a decline of 5.7 points (California 47.6 below standard). - Science (CAST): 14.5 points below standard; this was the first year the science test was represented on the dashboard…